Chapter 585: Chapter 507: Mitic Interference Fringes, A Great Victory for Particle Theory
The academic symposium continued for several hours, with wizards constantly taking the stage to present their inventions or theories on magic.
Not to ntion, three perpetual motion machines appeared, clearly showing the wizards’ keen interest in creating infinite power sources.
The most reliable one was the magnetic perpetual motion machine, which used dozens of permanent magnets to provide power and was expected to function for many years. However, Lynn still rejected this device.
After all, with those strong magnets, why wouldn’t they use them to build a generator?
Wouldn’t that be more efficient?
However, the ideas of the wizards weren’t always so problematic. After more than a year, the results of various magic theories had surged, especially in the fields of mathematical wizardry, chanics, elents, and electromagnetism.
In these several hours, Lynn, Harrov, and others had already awarded six Morning Star dals, and this was just the first day of the symposium.
Sean was the thirty-sixth person to take the stage, presenting his invention—a chanical pendulum clock for tikeeping!
Nowadays, wizards still used the hourglass thod for tikeeping, which involved asuring ti based on how long the sand took to flow from one container to another.
But what was different was that the hourglass made by wizards contained a special type of sand imbued with magic power called Ti Sand.
This thing possessed two important characteristics.
The first was that in a specific hourglass, it would fall at a rate of ten grains per second, and the second was that it was particularly noticeable under a wizard’s unique spiritual perception.
This ant that wizards only needed to touch the hourglass to know through spiritual power how much sand remained, and their computing power could determine the current ti in a very short period.
The accuracy could reach about 0.01 seconds.
Sean’s chanical pendulum clock used the principle of isochronism.
The so-called pendulum is a device that can produce reciprocating swinging—a small ball placed at one end of a fine string suspended from the ceiling constitutes a pendulum.
Once an initial force is applied, under the influence of gravity, the ball below begins to swing back and forth.
Moreover, according to the law he discovered, the ti it took for the ball to swing back and forth depended only on the length of the pendulum’s arc and was not affected by the magnitude of the swing. This stability beca the basis for asuring ti…
Sean dismantled the entire pendulum clock, pointing to the gears, escapent, mainspring, and balance spring inside, explaining in detail how it worked.
In short, the force of the pendulum drove the gears, and one full turn represented one minute!
After listening to Sean’s description, Lynn realized this was a rather primitive pendulum clock, likely because it had just been developed, and its structure was very rudintary.
After casually pointing out several areas for improvent, Lynn smiled again and spoke, “In my view, why not simply increase the number of gears inside the dial to three? Each rotation of the small gear drives the middle gear to move a quarter, and one full rotation of the middle gear drives the large gear to move a quarter. I would call them the second wheel, minute wheel, and hour wheel!”
Sean paused, his face showing surprise, quickly understanding the benefits of this. This way, there was no need to specifically calculate how many circles the dial had turned—one could easily see what minute and second it was.
“Thank you for your proposal, Chairman Lynn, I didn’t expect you to have such a profound mastery in alchemy,” Sean said, bowing slightly in thanks.
Previously, within the empire, all he had heard about was how outstanding this Star of Magic was in magical research, and now it seed he was truly talented in all fields.
“In fact, Chairman Lynn is the most skilled wizard in alchemy in the entire magic community. My title as a Magic Creator has long been undeserved,” said Vittorio, who was sitting at the judging panel, quite embarrassingly.
Lynn, who had developed airships, war machines, magic trains, and steel battleships within a few short years, truly fit the title of Magic Creator more aptly.
His own developnt of the Sun Fla Cannon was indeed sharp, but it was just picking up others’ ideas, rely using alchemical thods to recreate the “Doomsday—Atomic Breath.”
“Actually, my skills in alchemy are quite ordinary, at most, I have so insights in engineering,” Lynn said, shaking his head with a smile, well aware that his advantage lay rely in his broad knowledge.
Even without his reminders, Sean would have been able to completely perfect it through repeated improvents.
Lynn quickly moved on from the topic and began discussing with Harrov and others whether they should nominate Sean for the Morning Star dal.
They were all quite optimistic about this new thod of tikeeping.
Its accuracy was certainly not as high as the magic clock, but its greatest value lay in that it did not require magic power, aning even ordinary civilians could use it, and its structure was not complex, holding great potential for popularization.
This was a true exemplar of using gravitational potential energy, much more reliable than those so-called perpetual motion machines.
Lynn nodded in agreent; this pendulum clock, in his view, had deeper significance than its function, representing an innovation in tikeeping devices.
After gradually shifting research focus to the microscopic domain, the accuracy of just 0.1 second from the magic hourglass seed a bit inadequate, necessitating precision down to the thousandth or even ten-thousandth of a second.
The wizard nad Sean might just be the right researcher to develop new types of tikeepers.
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